Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman antiquity, a wine-vase; an amphora.
- noun A vase of bottle-shaped form, generally in unfamiliar wares, as Levantine, Persian, or the like.
- noun The saccular extremity of the cochlea in some of the vertebrates below mammals, as a bird, where ramify the ultimate filaments of the auditory nerve.
- noun In zoology: The typical genus of Lagenidæ. A genus or subgenus of mollusks of the family Fasciolariidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most reptiles; an appendage of the sacculus, corresponding to the cochlea, in fishes and amphibians.
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- noun anatomy The upper part of the
cochlear duct . - noun A similar structure, shaped like a
flask , that is ahearing organ in somevertebrates .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Its extremities are closed; the upper is termed the lagena and is attached to the cupula at the upper part of the helicotrema; the lower is lodged in the recessus cochlearis of the vestibule.
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 4. The Internal Ear or Labyrinth 1918
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This figure shows also the cochlea, marked lagena, in which the organ of hearing of mammals (the organ of Corti) is located.
The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior Robert M. Yerkes 1916
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The inner ear, which contains the sense organs, consists of a membranous bag, the chief parts of which are the utriculus, the sacculus, the lagena, and the three semicircular canals.
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The cavity of this membranous labyrinth is filled with a fluid, the endolymph; and within the utriculus, sacculus and lagena are masses of inorganic matter called the otoliths.
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Fn.I. 26 The “lagena,” or “lagona,” was a long-necked bottle
The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes Phaedrus 1746
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Ptg. ftia Iht, fto kge erit B aqua infcra fta3 lo In lagena - aaj lo - motdovhabuJc
Nova acta Academiae scientiarvm imperialis petropolitanae. Praecedit historia .. 1787
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Heic ego-fecurus vulgi, & quid praeparet Aufter Infelix pecori: fecurus, & angulus illc iVicini, noftro quia pinguior: & fi adco omncs DitefcaM orti pejoribus, ufquc rccwfem i j Curvus ob id minui fenio, aut coenare fine urvSoy Et fignum in vapida nafo tetigifle lagena.
A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ... Persius, Juvenal , Sulpicia, C . Lucilius, Gaius Lucilius, Johann August Ernesti, Societas Bipontina, Johann Albert Fabricius 1785
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Who would decant the wine of his poetry from its quaint and antique-looking lagena? ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891
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The “lagena,” or “lagona,” was a long-necked bottle or flagon, made of earth, and much used for keeping wine or fruit.] [Footnote I. 27: _The foreign bird_) -- Ver.
The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes Phaedrus 1746
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